He attended Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School and received both a law degree and an M.B.A. in 1975
The son of Michigan governor, George Romney
Politician, businessman
Mitt Romney married Ann Davies in 1969; they have five sons, Tagg, Matt, Josh, Ben and Craig.
Religious Views: Morman
Mitt Romney began his career in business. He worked for the management consulting firm Bain & Company before founding the investment firm Bain Capital in 1984. In 1994, he ran for the U.S. Senate in Massachusetts but was defeated by longtime incumbent Edward Kennedy.
He helped rescue the 2002 Winter Olympics from financial and ethical woes
he was elected governor of Massachusetts in 2003. During Romney's term as governor, he oversaw the reduction of a $3 billion deficit. Romney also signed into law a health care reform program to provide nearly universal health care for Massachusetts residents
changing his position on several key issues including abortion, which he opposes, and health care reform—he opposed President Obama's health care reform program
http://www.biography.com/people/mitt-romney-241055
The Objectives
Romney believes that our continued presence should be decided by the military’s top brass, cautions that we should not be making similar commitments in the future. He also stressed that the bulk of the responsibility lies with the Afghanis.
“I want those troops to come home based upon not politics, not based upon economics, but instead based upon the conditions on the ground determined by the generals … But I also think we have learned that our troops should not go off and try to fight a war of independence for another nation. Only the Afghanis can win Afghanistan’s independence from the Taliban.”
13 June 2011, Republican Presidential Debate in New Hampshire
Cost
Romney believes our policy in Afghanistan should not be based on the economic costs alone
“There will be some who argue it’s too expensive now, we’ve got to bring the troops home right now, or others will say, politically we need to make one decision or another … You don’t make a decision about our involvement in a conflict based on dollars and cents alone or certainly not with regards to politics.”
14 June 2011, New York Times
http://2012.republican-candidates.org/Romney/Issues.php
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